Portal time 25-26

[Bootsy]

I'd love to see Kanye return, but wouldn't be at all surprised if he doesn't.
The dude has been through a LOT during his time on the mountain.

[NattyBumppo'sRevenge]

Other than some DL help, weren’t we still looking for a punter? Or did that get squared away?

We won’t need a punter next season

[mtnjax]

Players had until last Friday to enter the portal. Teams can sign players out of the portal all the way up until the season starts. There's still time yall

[ASUFan4863]

We signed a punter from Arkansas State.

[NattyBumppo'sRevenge]

We signed a punter from Arkansas State.

He’s going to have the most rested leg in college football next season

[mtnjax]

Y'all been wanting some beef on the lines, well here you go



DLo and staff need to just go over to Johnson City and see how many more wanna just step on over

[firemoose]

As posted.

TRANSFER COMMIT:

https://247sports.com/player/kishawn-ha ... ge-350066/

[BambooRdApp]

RS 2023. No game action 2024. 4 tackles in 2025 at FCS level. Is this a project? Depth play? Practice squad? Is there more to the story of this player?

Maybe I am too ambitious. I had hoped, if we are dipping into the FCS level, that the player has some valuable playing time

[biggie]

Duke suing QB Mensah on the transfer

[NattyBumppo'sRevenge]

RS 2023. No game action 2024. 4 tackles in 2025 at FCS level. Is this a project? Depth play? Practice squad? Is there more to the story of this player?

Maybe I am too ambitious. I had hoped, if we are dipping into the FCS level, that the player has some valuable playing time

I’ve found that stats for FCS players often only include games against FBS competition. Not saying that’s what happened here, but have had trouble finding stats on some of these guys

lol, so he had 14 tackles in 2025, but 3 were for a loss. So 1 out of 5 tackles is for a loss. If he just had more tackles, he’d be a national all star

[311neers]

RS 2023. No game action 2024. 4 tackles in 2025 at FCS level. Is this a project? Depth play? Practice squad? Is there more to the story of this player?

Maybe I am too ambitious. I had hoped, if we are dipping into the FCS level, that the player has some valuable playing time

Can we pay the FCS studs? Doesn’t look like we can or else we’d have landed some.
I fear they are even out of our price range.

[t4pizza]

RS 2023. No game action 2024. 4 tackles in 2025 at FCS level. Is this a project? Depth play? Practice squad? Is there more to the story of this player?

Maybe I am too ambitious. I had hoped, if we are dipping into the FCS level, that the player has some valuable playing time

Can we pay the FCS studs? Doesn’t look like we can or else we’d have landed some.
I fear they are even out of our price range.

We purportedly doubled our NIL budget from last year, I think we can pay FCS kids for G6 prices. We can't compete with P4 amounts but we should be competitive with G6 programs.

[BambooRdApp]

RS 2023. No game action 2024. 4 tackles in 2025 at FCS level. Is this a project? Depth play? Practice squad? Is there more to the story of this player?

Maybe I am too ambitious. I had hoped, if we are dipping into the FCS level, that the player has some valuable playing time

Can we pay the FCS studs? Doesn’t look like we can or else we’d have landed some.
I fear they are even out of our price range.

We purportedly doubled our NIL budget from last year, I think we can pay FCS kids for G6 prices. We can't compete with P4 amounts but we should be competitive with G6 programs.

My observation was not that we are getting the best of the FCS. I thought we would be able to get players with decent stats at FCS level. However, the stats on this kid seems low or non-existent. I was just curious if more to the story on the player than their stats.

[mtnjax]

RS 2023. No game action 2024. 4 tackles in 2025 at FCS level. Is this a project? Depth play? Practice squad? Is there more to the story of this player?

Maybe I am too ambitious. I had hoped, if we are dipping into the FCS level, that the player has some valuable playing time

Can we pay the FCS studs? Doesn’t look like we can or else we’d have landed some.
I fear they are even out of our price range.

We purportedly doubled our NIL budget from last year, I think we can pay FCS kids for G6 prices. We can't compete with P4 amounts but we should be competitive with G6 programs.

My observation was not that we are getting the best of the FCS. I thought we would be able to get players with decent stats at FCS level. However, the stats on this kid seems low or non-existent. I was just curious if more to the story on the player than their stats.

Stats don't always tell the whole story though. If he's a NT, his job in most defensive schemes isn't t going to be to rack up stats,

[BambooRdApp]

RS 2023. No game action 2024. 4 tackles in 2025 at FCS level. Is this a project? Depth play? Practice squad? Is there more to the story of this player?

Maybe I am too ambitious. I had hoped, if we are dipping into the FCS level, that the player has some valuable playing time

Can we pay the FCS studs? Doesn’t look like we can or else we’d have landed some.
I fear they are even out of our price range.

We purportedly doubled our NIL budget from last year, I think we can pay FCS kids for G6 prices. We can't compete with P4 amounts but we should be competitive with G6 programs.

My observation was not that we are getting the best of the FCS. I thought we would be able to get players with decent stats at FCS level. However, the stats on this kid seems low or non-existent. I was just curious if more to the story on the player than their stats.

Stats don't always tell the whole story though. If he's a NT, his job in most defensive schemes isn't t going to be to rack up stats,

He had zero stats in 2024

[mtnjax]

Can we pay the FCS studs? Doesn’t look like we can or else we’d have landed some.
I fear they are even out of our price range.

We purportedly doubled our NIL budget from last year, I think we can pay FCS kids for G6 prices. We can't compete with P4 amounts but we should be competitive with G6 programs.

My observation was not that we are getting the best of the FCS. I thought we would be able to get players with decent stats at FCS level. However, the stats on this kid seems low or non-existent. I was just curious if more to the story on the player than their stats.

Stats don't always tell the whole story though. If he's a NT, his job in most defensive schemes isn't t going to be to rack up stats,

He had zero stats in 2024

So a RS-Fr didn't have any stats? Color me shocked. Rather than bitch and moan about someone's lack of stats, I'll choose to put faith in our DC, a former Mountaineer, and his evaluations of what he needs

[BambooRdApp]

We purportedly doubled our NIL budget from last year, I think we can pay FCS kids for G6 prices. We can't compete with P4 amounts but we should be competitive with G6 programs.

My observation was not that we are getting the best of the FCS. I thought we would be able to get players with decent stats at FCS level. However, the stats on this kid seems low or non-existent. I was just curious if more to the story on the player than their stats.

Stats don't always tell the whole story though. If he's a NT, his job in most defensive schemes isn't t going to be to rack up stats,

He had zero stats in 2024

So a RS-Fr didn't have any stats? Color me shocked. Rather than bitch and moan about someone's lack of stats, I'll choose to put faith in our DC, a former Mountaineer, and his evaluations of what he needs

Not bitching or moaning. My original question was whether there was a story behind the player given lack of noted stats. You can interpret that any way damn wat you want to.

[NattyBumppo'sRevenge]

My observation was not that we are getting the best of the FCS. I thought we would be able to get players with decent stats at FCS level. However, the stats on this kid seems low or non-existent. I was just curious if more to the story on the player than their stats.

Stats don't always tell the whole story though. If he's a NT, his job in most defensive schemes isn't t going to be to rack up stats,

He had zero stats in 2024

So a RS-Fr didn't have any stats? Color me shocked. Rather than bitch and moan about someone's lack of stats, I'll choose to put faith in our DC, a former Mountaineer, and his evaluations of what he needs

Not bitching or moaning. My original question was whether there was a story behind the player given lack of noted stats. You can interpret that any way damn well you want to.

I share concerns that a guy with minimal playing time at an average FCS team is being recruited out of the transfer portal. He could be amazing, I think Bamboo is just curious as to the why and wondering what garnered him attention. Even as a NT, you'd think he'd have more than 14 tackles in 2025 if he was worthy of moving up to FBS. Maybe he was hurt or something and he had 14 tackles across 2-3 games and played out of his mind. Or is it solely because he's 315 and 6'1?